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...As a result of those factors, demand for gold, including over-the-counter activity, rose 1 per cent over a year ago to 1,174 tonnes in the first quarter....
...The shares, which peaked at more than $580 in late 2020, have tumbled from $337 at the start of last year to about $110 as sales have slowed....
...Hiring for October was 125,000 versus a forecast 110,000 rise, but September was revised lower to 93,000 from an initial figure of 135,000....
...The state’s governor, John Carney, is holding a hearing about the bill today*, as the Delaware News Journal reports....
...Investors have cut their equity holdings to four-year lows as uncertainty in global financial markets rises ahead of the UK’s referendum on its EU membership and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision...
...In the meantime, the price of crude is holding near four month highs....
...Brazilian stocks have begun Friday firmly on the backfoot, with the benchmark Bovespa index opening 2.4 per cent lower to a near three-month low of 44,174.24....
...Copper, however, fell to $5,110 a tonne, down 0.4 per cent on the day and 1.3 per cent on the week. Gold was down $5 at $1,140 an ounce, for a five-day drop of $23....
...After a financial crisis that left it in need of a multibillion-euro bailout, Greek national debt is equal to 174 per cent of the country’s GDP....
...(Financial Times) Private equity keeps $789bn of powder dry: Private equity groups are holding more cash for acquisitions than they had at the height of the leveraged buyout boom, in spite of a fall in...
...The all-cash offer from MidAmerican Holdings, a Berkshire subsidiary that provides power in the midwest and Rocky Mountain regions, values NV at $10bn, including debt.”...
...LLC, a unit of the Persian Gulf emirate’s sovereign- wealth fund, agreed to form asset manager Aventicum Capital Management to boost investments in emerging markets. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11...
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: MIXED Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +31.22 (+0.34%) at 9,174 Topix up +4.01 (+0.53%) at 766.05 Hang Seng up +25.11 (+0.12%) at 21,253 US markets S&P 500 up +0.92 (+0.07%...
...Sorting out Dubai Group’s $10bn debts was always going to be tougher than most negotiations over the emirate’s total $110 debt pile....
...Counterbid hopes pushed Logica 68.8 per cent higher to 110.9p after the IT services group said it had agreed a 105p-a-share offer from Canada’s CGI Group....
...at 19,592 US markets S&P 500 up +20.43 (+1.72%) at 1,209 DJIA up +186.45 (+1.66%) at 11,433 Nasdaq up +34.52 (+1.34%) at 2,607 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +18.94 (+2.07%) at 932.16 FTSE100 up +110.52...
...Almost nine in 10 investors expect to turn down some requests by private equity groups to reinvest into their next fund generation, according to a recent survey of 110 investors from Coller Capital, the...
...HSBC Holdings fell 2.1 per cent in Hong Kong while Bank of Communications lost 0.9 per cent....
...its holdings, Bloomberg reports....
...Citigroup was up 4.1 per cent per cent at $28.45, Goldman Sachs climbed 3.2 per cent to $110.31 and Genworth Financial put on 6.7 per cent to close at $6.55, as financial stocks in the S&P 500 strongly...
...Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School have reported “striking” and “remarkably persistent” excess returns from a theoretical strategy of buying winners and selling losers over the past 110...
...Amazon slid 3.2 per cent to $174.73....
...Chevron owned 80 per cent of the project with Italian company Eni and Indonesia’s state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina holding the rest....
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